Word: statisticians
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...that two thirds of American public schools do teach a combination of abstinence and sex education, and that rates of teen pregnancy have reached their lowest point in two decades, it may be possible to draw the preliminary conclusion that the combination curriculum is working. Of course, as any statistician or social scientist will tell you, it's always dangerous to draw conclusions from a "snapshot," or a year or two of statistics. And, as in any heated debate, everyone is more than willing to take whatever information they can get - and spin it into a success story for their...
...most recent research, published last March, backs up previous studies that came to favorable conclusions. Funded by the Home School Legal Defense Association but conducted by Lawrence M. Rudner, a respected independent statistician, the study found that 20,760 K-12 home-schooled students had median scores typically in the 70th to 80th percentile. But the sample, like previous ones, was overwhelmingly white, Christian, educated and affluent--and not comparable to a control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh...
...University Marshal introduced the recipients--Arrow, Harvard Professor Bernard Bailyn, Block, Professor Andrew F. Brimmer, statistician David R. Cox, Greenspan, Literary Theorist Julia Kristeva, and Author Mario Vargas Llosa. Rudenstine bestowed a witty epithet on each recipient--describing Greenspan as the man who "keeps America green"--before conferring the degrees...
...Bennett of Bellcore, sports statistician: Ty Cobb's 50 career steals of home and Cy Young's 511 wins will probably never be reached without a major shift in the nature of the game. Also in this category is Nolan Ryan's 5,714 strikeouts. Schilling, Clemens and Johnson have virtually no chance to break this record. On the other hand, Hank Aaron's 755-HR record is within reach of several current sluggers...
...gambling goes, Powerball isn't the smartest use of one's money. "We know the arithmetic, and it's not only a bad bet, it's actually a very bad bet," warns Gary Simon, also a statistician, at New York University. "The odds are so high, and [the Powerball administrators] immediately take 50 [cents] of the dollar off the top. If you're at the horse races, they take about 15[cents] of the dollar before returning the rest of the money to the public. The casinos take something like a nickel or a dime, depending on the game...